The two teams
of Avengers at the base of the M'krann, next to the Liberators, found themselves
under heavy attack as well. But unlike the Liberators, their numbers were
much fewer and they had lost many more friends and allies over the years,
and so the attacks were much more damaging and the Avengers' responses
far more desperate.

Major Mexico and the Avengers of Earth-573
found themselves bracketed, and pressed hard. On their left were Esteban
Desconocido, the former Brujo Supremo, and his group Defensors,
the valiant men and women of the southern continent of the United States
of Mexico who, based out of Rio de Janeiro, had fought for over a decade
to protect both the common people and the world itself from threats as
various as the Deviants, Capitán Ultra and Satannish himself. They
had finally fallen in battle while killing the El Dragón del Luna--hero's
death. But now they had returned, and were pressing hard, the strength
of Namor and the spells of Esteban Desconocido and the sword of Ángel
threatening to kill the Avengers. On their right were the Estupendo Cuatro,
the first true superhero team of Earth-573. Although Major Mexico had led
the Battalón Libertad, a team of metahumans in World War Two, the
Estupendo Cuatro had come together of their own volition, rather than by
direct order of El Presidente Balladares. When Reed Richards had, with
his wife, his sister, and his younger brother, taken his rocket to the
moon, they had found the Ciudad Azul and stumbled on a series of Kree devices.
Richards used them to give himself and the others who'd come with him superpowers.
And for two decades Richards had explored alien worlds and challenged the
unknown from New Aztlan, his intellect and science creating wonders that
helped to transform the city into the best and most advanced city in the
world. But the Estupendo Cuatro had died in battle against their arch-enemy,
the armored Hungarian dictator El Doctor Muerte, and now they, too, were
throwing themselves at the Avengers.

Jacky Canuck and the Avengers of Earth-599
were similarly in trouble, the attacks of their former friends pressing
them back against the base of the M'krann. All of their attackers were
joined together into one mass, rather than keeping themselves separate,
in the teams they'd been in before they'd died. Mohawks--the mutant heroes
who, led by Doctor Xavier, had fought against anti-mutant prejudice until
they had finally been killed in action by the villainous Armageddon (who,
to Jacky Canuck, looked unnervingly like the creature which had taken control
of the M'krann)--stood side by side with the Highlanders, the Scots heroes
who'd been protectors of Europe from their hq in the castle in Edinburgh
following the destruction of London by the evil magician Fannin. The Clowns,
the Hopi, Navajo, and white heroes of the midlands of Canada, used their
powers against the Avengers as the Brahmins, the brave sextet of adventurers
who had launched Silver Age with their daring trip to the moon, recovered
from what the Avengers had done to them. The battle was a desperate one,
and neither side held back.